I arrived in Prague for the final production week with dress rehearsals, and on February 21st, the 1st night. Therefore this blog will have quite a number of flashbacks.
We had the first dress rehearsal yesterday. The event is billed as "A Bournonville Evening" and consists of his two best known ballets, "La Sylphide" and Act 3 of Bournonville's genre ballet, "Napoli" which is essentially a 40 minute celebration of the joy of dance, without the back-story.
The evening contained another adventure, when during the big scene change Martin, the director of the Prague ballet, took us up to the roof of the theatre in the freezing moonlight, which would have made a fine set for Don Giovanni, or Tosca without any changes at all!
3 comments:
Most interesting. Super pix.
Indeed. I misread it as the Bourneville evening, and assumed you meant it was chocolate boxey. Ha Ha!
It´s a lovely and most individual blog.
Well it is a bit chocolate boxey as it happens! But only the highest quality most joyful chocolate, and not in the least indigestible, though how one might feel after all 3 acts could be a different story.
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